amel
\a.mɛl\
The verdict
“amel” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #38,642) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #38,642
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gouverneur d'un amalat, au Maroc de la fin du XIXᵉ siècle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-amel · amel · French
amel · rank #38,642 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,642
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ambivalence
Nearest frequency peer: ambivalence (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « amel »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- allumette
allumette
61,362 corpus weight
- ambiguïtés
ambiguïtés
61,361 corpus weight
- ambivalence
ambivalence
61,360 corpus weight
- amel
amel
61,359 corpus weight
- amigos
amigos
61,358 corpus weight
- amt
amt
61,357 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « amel » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.mɛl\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #38,642 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « amel »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for amel is neighbouring look-alikes ("ami", "axe", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \a.mɛl\. Frequency #38,642 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Gouverneur d'un amalat, au Maroc de la fin du XIXᵉ siècle.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for amel, with forms such as "aeml", "amell", and "ammel". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ami", "axe", "are", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is amel, spelled A-M-E-L.
Definition
- 1Gouverneur d'un amalat, au Maroc de la fin du XIXᵉ siècle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how amel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’amel paraît fort surpris. Bou-Hamidi lui explique les motifs qui déterminent la France à s’emparer d’Oudjda et lui dit de venir devant les troupes françaises voir le colonel Reibell L’amel part accompagné d’une escorte de quelques cavaliers. Quand il se trouve en présence du colonel Reibell, ce dernier lui dit que la France […]
Ces dellals forment une corporation d'une douzaine de membres, dont le chef est un nommé Ben Mouna ; ils sont soumis au contrôle du mohtasseb. Les dellals ne peuvent exercer qu'avec l'autorisation de l’amel et ils doivent fournir une caution solvable, qui réponde du remboursement au cas où ils commettraient un abus de confiance.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aeml
- amell
- ammel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of amel - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).